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Laniakea presses the intercom button. "You are in violation of Pact statutes 32-B, subsection 11 and 49-H, subsection 82 through 85 by illegally occupying a Hellknight installation. Surrender peacefully, and the Hellknights may give you a fair trial by combat."
"P.S. Your bases are belong to us," he adds.
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"Yes Elwin,I think we can see the rest of the compound... Let's do a little peek around and see if we can find our host. Maybe see if they have any other friends here. Then we could stop by the armoury to resupply?" Smek gives a mischievious grin at the thought at what might be waiting. He then brings up each room on a separate monitor (or cycles them slowly on one), trying to see what each room holds.
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The booming deep voice comes back on the loudspeakers: "YES! Thank you! Who are you, ally of mine?! YOU HEAR THAT, INTERLOPERS? You are indeed in violation of Pact statutes B 82-B, subsectors 11 and 4...-H, whatever! You are illegally occupying a glorious Hellknight installation. Surrender peacefully, and the Hellknight Lictor I am may give you a fair death by your chosen means!"
Smek manages to access the cameras, and starts cycling through.
The controls to some other cameras are damaged and it is impossible to access them.
But the agent from the corporation gains control of the cameras in hydroponics - the place with the biting flowers - and the security center - where you are now - but also of:
• the medical center - where a medical bed is in the middle of the room, with a plastic shelving unit curving a wall of the circular chamber. It seems to hold an assortment of vials and tools. The only exit is a door.
• the barracks - the room is mostly empty except for some bunk-bed units and what seems like some diverse items strewn about.
• the armory - supply lockers line the walls of this circular room. Varied pieces of equipment are visible within some of the open lockers, while others are piled on the floor in front of hastily cleared units. Two doors lead to this chamber.
• the command center - this circular room is bare, except for several computer screens and databanks that line the inner walls. Chairs jut out from some of these computerized desks, while doors exit to the three "sides". You see some movement-- it seems like at least three of the devils you saw before, and... wait? No, that one there, that just spotted the camera in its ceiling going live... that is no devil, no, that is a small Being, those little round aliens you saw in the village! Except that has painted itself red!
Oh, and it just leaped up and is flinging itself right at you!
You duck... feeling silly, since it is coming at the camera, not you.
But the screen goes black, and fills with static.
The creature broke its camera.
"You darn' @#$!" comes its angry voice.
"The Glorious Order of the Hellknights will bill you for this!"
Smek can turn these cameras on or off as he wants.
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Numina looks up from her datapad, the screen is filled with the image of a battlefield, burning ships falling from the sky. sorry, got distracted, what were we supposed to be doing again? she asks looking over thr machinery.
Good work Smek. Lets see if we can find a base plan as well, work out where the command centre is and deal with this being
She flips the intercom on, You seem much angrier than your people in the village, they were cool but you really arent. What happened to you?
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"They are weak! None passed the harsh tests to go from Armiger to full Hellknight! But I will make them tough, have them become great soldiers in the fight against chaos!"
Numina pulls up the outposts' plans
C1 - Entrance Chamber
C2 - Mess Hall
C3 - Hydroponics
C4 -Security Center
C5 - Medical center
C6 - Barracks
C7 - Command Center
C8 - Armory
C9 - Officer Quarters
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As the Hellknight Being rants about paying for damages and what not, Smek tries to get a good look in the weapons locker and med center. Looking for any viable equipment that might help the party.
Smek tries to lock out the Hellknight Being from the security cams and intercom, while leaving the cameras and sound active in this room and patched into the teams personal comms. If he can't, then he shuts down the system to keep the groups movements less obvious.
Once he's sure the Being can't see or hear them, "So, should we check out the weapons locker before we deal with this nuisance?"
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So, moving back from the Security Center through Hydopronics and past the Entrance Chamber , then you go down, carefully, checking for traps, the corridor where the devils came from and past the door-- Kei is a bit sad, because the door is open: no kicking! --into the entrance of where the devils came from.
You see an L-shaped plastic table and accompanying chairs are haphazardly shoved in the northwest area of this circular space.
Doors exit to the south where you came from, and east of this otherwise empty chamber.
You look around a bit, but this mess hall is mostly abandoned and seems rarely used, with randomly placed tables and chairs pushed against walls or carelessly overturned.
Carefully down the corridor, and finally a kick by Kei, and you see the Armory.
Supply lockers line the walls of this thirty-foot-wide circular room.
Varied pieces of equipment are visible within some of the open lockers, while others are piled on the floor in front of hastily cleared units.
Doors exit this chamber to the west, where you are, and southwest.
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You take time, and check for booby traps and evil-devil jinxes... and, finding nothing you go through this room that served as the supply room and arsenal for the former Hellknights.
Though mostly ransacked - by the exile? Someone else? - it still contains some useful items.
The lockers here contain four shock grenades II, and a set of lashunta ringwear II, as well as the first twelve issues of Hell Night, "the Guide to Having Fun as an Armiger".
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"And look what's over... Sadly nothing I can use but.." Smek points out the hidden cache of weapons. "Grenades. This just went from a mission to a party. Kei new plan, kick-throw-shoot?"
"Well, shall we end this? Are we going to take the Being alive? I mean its people or the Hellknights might want to have a few words with it." Smek goes through his gear, keeping his sword in one hand and pistol in another. "I call not it for the devils, unless stuff goes wrong. My pistol won't harm them. If it comes to melee I'll do what I can."
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Laniakea and Elwin each took a shock grenade, and, after debating, you suddenly speed up into action and Kei' kicks the door open.
You see the immense circular room that is bare except for several computer screens and databanks that line the inner walls.
Several of the computers have short circuited or broken, but about half of the terminals are still functioning, with their red lights blinking in the black frames.
Chairs jut out from some of these computerized desks, while doors exit to the northeast - where Kei's foot just opened the door -, southeast, and southwest.
Two little devils, red and black, spin around and look at Kei.
Black tells red: "Told 'ya they'd come that way. But you never listen, do ya'? You always know everything, don't ya'?"
In the middle, a small alien from this planet is bouncing up and down.
It has a hellknight sword, and an old black and red rifle.
Seeing Kei', it bounces around to face him: "OVERSIZED DEMON SPAWN!"
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Bullets smash computers screens, knock spikes off the walls, and send blood and chunks of flesh flying left and right.
Shell casings pile up on the floor.
And your ears are all ringing.
Black chuckles, telling red: "I was gonna say you should never insult a giant with a heavy machine gun! Ha ha... no survival skills this Master. But I'm not as badly hurt as you! I have survival skills!"